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Zoë Buckman’s multidisciplinary practice incorporates sculpture, textiles, ceramics, photography, and large-scale public installations. Adopting an explicitly feminist approach, her work explores identity, trauma, and gendered violence, subverting preconceived notions of vulnerability and strength.
Buckman regularly chooses to work with objects symbolically associated with gender. Utilizing vintage fabrics in her work, from lingerie to dishcloths and table linens, these textiles, traditionally used and decorated by women, recall an intimacy with the body and a proximity to the domestic space. Bearing traces of their past, vintage fabrics point to a history of patriarchal subjugation, but also to the necessity and comfort of intergenerational dialogue between women. Her choice of domestic materials, paired with hip-hop lyrics, lines from her late playwright mother’s scripts and other cultural sources, establish a deeply personal constellation of the artist’s lived experience.
Public works include a MENDED: a Times Square Midnight Momenta, a mural, We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident, in collaboration with Natalie Frank at the Ford Foundation Gallery of New York & Live Arts in NYC, and various billboard projects with For Freedoms. In February 2018 Buckman unveiled her first Public Sculpture presented by Art Production Fund on Sunset Blv, Los Angeles, a large scale outdoor version of her neon sculpture Champ, which has been up for several years.
Buckman’s work is included in the permanent collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, The National Portrait Gallery, London, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, The Jewish Museum, NYC, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, The Chrysler Museum Virginia, The Studio Museum in Harlem.
